The Biden administration announced Friday that 804,000 borrowers will have their student debt wiped away, totaling $39 billion worth of debt, in the coming weeks due to fixes that more accurately count qualified monthly payments under existing income-driven repayment plans.
I normally hold my nose and vote for them, and most recently it has cost me my favorite cigars and pipe tobacco, being able to order vape stuff online, and my 3D printed gun hobby. I’ve been signed up for multiple financial services without my consent (might have to do with being a government worker idk), taking money from my paychecks until I can cancel them since most of the benefits of I’m not even eligible for and already have my own preferred versions of them set up.
I’m forced into a corrupted bottle recycling scam that forces me to store cans and then drive them to a recycling facility and stand in line for hours, instead of just putting them into the recycling can right outside my front door. The system is set up with a perverse incentive to make recycling as hard as they can get away with. I’m gonna get angry if I keep trying to think of more ways they fucked me over, but I’m sure there is more.
Edit: Oh yeah, the requirement for paper bags and having to pay for them even though paper bags are worse for the environment. I have my own reusable bag but when I forget it the paper bags tend to break on me. A rent control law with an absurdly high limit on the raises that both guarentees landlords will raise the price every year AND people will still be priced out of their homes anyway.
At this point you might be able to guess where I live. For all of that I got nothing of meaningful benefit. I really don’t know if I’m going to be able to do it next time.
I wouldn’t blame you for voting for a liberal Republican for state elections if you live in a very blue state. I don’t know if those exist. But if they do, so be it. I’m all for holding individuals accountable. And hard blue/red states can get very lazy about accountability.
But any candidate that doesn’t respect basic human rights can fuck right off. And I don’t know of a single Republican on the national stage that passes the smell test.
I just wish they would stop trying to ban stuff.
I normally hold my nose and vote for them, and most recently it has cost me my favorite cigars and pipe tobacco, being able to order vape stuff online, and my 3D printed gun hobby. I’ve been signed up for multiple financial services without my consent (might have to do with being a government worker idk), taking money from my paychecks until I can cancel them since most of the benefits of I’m not even eligible for and already have my own preferred versions of them set up.
I’m forced into a corrupted bottle recycling scam that forces me to store cans and then drive them to a recycling facility and stand in line for hours, instead of just putting them into the recycling can right outside my front door. The system is set up with a perverse incentive to make recycling as hard as they can get away with. I’m gonna get angry if I keep trying to think of more ways they fucked me over, but I’m sure there is more.
Edit: Oh yeah, the requirement for paper bags and having to pay for them even though paper bags are worse for the environment. I have my own reusable bag but when I forget it the paper bags tend to break on me. A rent control law with an absurdly high limit on the raises that both guarentees landlords will raise the price every year AND people will still be priced out of their homes anyway.
At this point you might be able to guess where I live. For all of that I got nothing of meaningful benefit. I really don’t know if I’m going to be able to do it next time.
I wouldn’t blame you for voting for a liberal Republican for state elections if you live in a very blue state. I don’t know if those exist. But if they do, so be it. I’m all for holding individuals accountable. And hard blue/red states can get very lazy about accountability.
But any candidate that doesn’t respect basic human rights can fuck right off. And I don’t know of a single Republican on the national stage that passes the smell test.